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Carter No.: 115

Handlist description: Wooden outer box, painted yellow

Card/Transcription No.: 115-4 


115 Box 


Yellow paint from outside is orpiment (sulphide of arsenic)


See The Tomb of Tut-ankh-Amen, Vol. II, Appendix II p.180.
Card no. 115-4 relating to Carter no. 115
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